Ev help

I'm trying to run EV on a yikes G4 but I keep on getting a type 4 error. Is any help I can get for this great game?BTW I turned the memory up to 40 mb.

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Make sure all of the following are in your EV folder-

  • EV Data

  • EV Graphics

  • EV Music

  • EV Sounds

  • EV Titles

If you have all that, trash your preferences file... it's probably corrupted.

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Error 4 dsZeroDivErr zero divide error

That's what Error Codes 7.0.1 says... probably won't help... good luck. 🙂

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Originally posted by Luke:
**Error 4 dsZeroDivErr zero divide error
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In English: It means the program tried to use zero as a divisor. That equals an infinite number, hence freezing your computer or giving you an error.

Quick Fix: I have no idea. Try my above suggestions

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Originally posted by Frozen7:
**I'm trying to run EV on a yikes G4 but I keep on getting a type 4 error. Is any help I can get for this great game?BTW I turned the memory up to 40 mb.

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Try the things others have suggested, including trashing the EV prefs file. Also reduce the memory allocation - you should not need anywhere near 40 MB, probably no more than 10- and oddly enough too much memory can cause EV to behave strangely.

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What OS are you using?

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Originally posted by Joe Burnette:
**Also reduce the memory allocation - you should not need anywhere near 40 MB, probably no more than 10- and oddly enough too much memory can cause EV to behave strangely.
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40 megs isn't too much though. I run EV with slightly over 40 megs preferred all the time and have never had any problems.

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Originally posted by Joe Burnette:
**Try the things others have suggested, including trashing the EV prefs file. Also reduce the memory allocation - you should not need anywhere near 40 MB, probably no more than 10- and oddly enough too much memory can cause EV to behave strangely.
**

Really? I run EV on 150MB to 200MB RAM allocation. I have absolutely no problems.

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I'm using OS 9.1

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Originally posted by Frozen7:
**I'm using OS 9.1

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That rules out OS X Classic bugs. :frown:

Try e-mailing Ambrosia about it.

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Heya Joe, long time no see, how ya doin?

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Originally posted by General Rak:
**In English: It means the program tried to use zero as a divisor. That equals an infinite number...
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Erm, as I recall, a fraction with 0 in the divisor (or denominator) equals 0. 0/12 is 0 pieces out of 12, to use a pizza-related example (just had lunch).

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Originally posted by EVula:
Erm, as I recall, a fraction with 0 in the divisor (or denominator) equals 0. 0/12 is 0 pieces out of 12, to use a pizza-related example (just had lunch).

A divide by zero error means that the denominator was zero, ie 12/0, not 0/12. While 0/12 = 0, 12/0 doesn't really equal anything meaningful that a computer can understand.

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Originally posted by David Arthur:
**While 0/12 = 0, 12/0 doesn't really equal anything meaningful that a computer can understand.
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Someone on the boards—can't recall who—uses this for his sig: Black holes are where God divided by zero.

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Originally posted by PlanetPhil:
**Someone on the boards—can't recall who—uses this for his sig: (bold)Black holes are where God divided by zero.(/bold)
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Heh. That's quite funny. 🙂

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Ok, I got it to work, just had to dlete the prefs. But now I need to know how I get ahead in the game. How do I get more money and become a real big player in the game. I have a courier with lots of upgrades and the Feds alittle mad at me (I sneaked away a prisnionor) . So what do I do?

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